The very existence of those arsenals also risked reinforcing the belief of those States that the NPT was designed to maintain the status quo in the domain of nuclear weapons and was only binding on those States which had renounced such weapons.
La existencia de esos arsenales también hace que esos Estados se hagan a la idea de que el TNP sirve para mantener el statu quo en la esfera de las armas nucleares y sólo obliga a los Estados que han renunciado a tales armas.